CB West romps to win over CB South

WARRINGTON — Central Bucks West has been a bit of an enigma this season. There have been nights when the Bucks have looked downright unbeatable. On others, they haven’t.

Two nights after falling in overtime to Central Bucks East, the Bucks seized early control of their Suburban One League Continental Conference girls basketball game against Central Bucks South and never let go, rolling to a 53-33 win.

The loss not only avenged a loss to South earlier in the season, but knocked the Titans (16-4 overall, 9-3 SOL Continental) into a second place tie with the Bucks (16-4, 9-3 Continental), one game behind SOL Continental Conference leader North Penn.

“As a team, we know now what we need to do,” West junior Nicole Munger said. “Today during warm-ups, Corrinne (Godshall) — with about five minutes left — was just screaming, ‘Let’s go West.’ One person sets the tone, and everyone picks up on that.”

Godshall also set the tone in the game, connecting on a pair of 3-pointers and also doing damage under the basket en route to a game-high 17 points. Munger added 12 points, and Mackenzie Carroll had 10, all in the second half.

“Losing to East probably shook our confidence, but we just practiced really, really hard, and we knew we could come out and win this game,” Godshall said. “We saw there were similarities between our loss to East and our last loss to South, things we were doing, things we weren’t doing. We definitely came into this game and we changed them.”

The Bucks took a tenuous 11-10 lead into the second quarter, then turned on the afterburners. Godshall and Munger connected on 3-pointers that were sandwiched around a pair of foul shots by South’s Kaley Smith, and the Bucks led 17-12.

After a Titans miss, Munger, who has committed to Michigan, battled for the offensive rebound and scored to give the Bucks a seven-point advantage, and that lead grew to 21-12 when Laura Roth scored on a second-chance opportunity after Meghan Tilger saved a rebound from crossing the end line.

A three-point play by Godshall sent the Bucks into halftime with a 26-14 lead.

“Tonight, I thought overall for four quarters, we didn’t have a down part,” West coach Terry Rakowsky said. “We played real hard, we went for rebounds, we were on the floor, and we contested just about everything that was out there.

“That’s really the key for us. We’re a team just learning how to — not how to win, but to continue to win and play a certain way. They know when we play a certain way, we’re a tough team to beat.”

The Bucks took a 39-22 lead into the final quarter. The Titans, sparked by eight straight points from Smith, made it a 39-30 game, but they would get no closer.

“Obviously, they came out and wanted it,” South senior Lauren Mosher said. “They just came off a loss against East, and especially since we beat them the last time and were ahead of them in the league, they just came out and wanted it from the get-go.”

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